Book  (2006)  Page(s) 83.  Includes photo(s).
 
Creekside Manor Tea". ["Jean Bach Sisley"] T. Good reliable rebloom. Outstanding fragrance. Habit [diagram] 1. Dubreuil, 1889. [Provenance: Huntington]. Deep pink scrolled buds open to wide coronets of clear pink creased petals. Foliage is dark, handsome and very fine. This treads the line between Tea and China but whatever you call it, it is a superior shrub for the garden. Mrs. Keays grew a foundling she called "Creekside Manor" which is identical to what we received from the Huntington as 'Jean Bach Sisley'. She considered this the best candidate for the real 'Souvenir d'un Ami', a possibility worth re-investigating. What is currently offered under that name is clearly at odds with early descriptions and illustrations.

p121. Photo "Creekside Manor Tea"

Article (HMF Ezine)  (Apr 2001)  Page(s) 3.  
 
Heritage Roses. Quarterly Rose Letter of the Heritage Roses Group.
Rev. Douglas T. Seidel. Those Fabulous Foundlings.
In 1973 I first visited the Maryland hill where Mrs. Keays' Creekside had stood and where a number of her roses were struggling to survive. Six bushes of "Faded Pink Monthly" still guarded the approach to the vanished manor house. For thirty years, at that point, no kind hand had tended them, no one had cared to pull the suffocating tendrils of honeysuckle and poison ivy away. But dear "Faded Pink Monthly" was still blooming! cuttings from those stalwart survivors have grown to be the most willing bloomers and the hardiest of the Noisette clan in my Zone 6 garden. Pickering and Roses Unlimited are now growing this legacy from Mrs. Keays.

Article (misc)  (1985)  Page(s) 11.  
 
'Jean Bach Sisley'. 31934. China, Dubreuil, 1899.
Paul, 1903: "Flowers opening delicate silvery-rose, outer petals salmon-rose lined and veined with carmine, large for its class, and very sweet; a beautiful and distinct variety."
Size: 4 to 5'
Source Carl Cato, VA 7-73, received as "Rich Foliage Tea". Bed 33 Row B #17-18.
New growth reddish green on top, bronzy red underside. Small reddish straight prickles. Vig, somewhat spreading growth. Dependable repeat bloom.

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 105.  
 
Souvenir d'un Ami, 1846: For two years we hung affectionately about this fascinating rose, photographed it, and studied it through all the books on Tea roses we could find before we dared to say, "You are that old beloved Souvenir d'un Ami." Among all Tea roses of cupped form which we have seen, this rose has the most perfectly circular outline and the finest conformation of folded petals which are of a consistency, strength, and elastic softness of a non-crushable resilient dull silk we long for but never see. The color is, likewise, exquisitely soft, being a light rose, deeper in the center, with yellow shanks, so suffused with a light or infused with a color that the effect is that of a salmonish rose. Two bushes of this Souvenir were among the roses we found at Creek Side. They grow four to five feet, making strong shoots which bear abundant foliage, leathery and much tinted with purplish red, and branching into loose clusters of blooms, each rose on a good stem, the whole forming a wide umbel of bloom. This rose excited curiosity as well as admiration. We wonder how it acquired its unusual blessings of perfect features, form, texture, color, fragrance, beauty and strength of foliage and perfect hardiness. Speaking of Souvenir d'un Ami, Parsons says in his book, "The Rose", "It is indeed the queen of the tea-scented roses and will rank the very first among them."